Greatest country song besides RT

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Okie From Muskogee
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Okie from Muskogee (song) - Wikipedia

In an interview with American Songwriter, Haggard called the song a "character study," his 1969 self being the character: "It was the photograph that I took of the way things looked through the eyes of a fool... and most of America was under the same assumptions I was. As it's stayed around now for 40 years, I sing the song now with a different attitude onstage... I've become educated... I play it now with a different projection. It's a different song now. I'm different now."

Critic Kurt Wolff wrote that Haggard always considered what became a redneck anthem to be a spoof, and that today fans—even the hippies who are derided in the lyrics—have taken a liking to the song and find humor in some of the lyrics.
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This was a particular favorite. Between 1970 and 1972, we would belt out this song anytime, anywhere. I’ve sung this a thousand times or more.
 
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I like the Dance too. That's more about just the way that I am. I am not a whiner.

Worried Man Blues is what I think gives you the measure of cultural significance of the Carter Family. That's the one that everybody recorded. However, it's not the one you'd hear in elevator music. I love it when you're somewhere like London or Tokyo and you hear some tune playing in the background that came out of Hiltons.
 
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Hard to pick an all time great because there are so many I love to hear, including a number already mentioned. But here are some no one has mentioned that are greats:

Ray Price - For the Good Times (this, my friends, is what slow dancing is all about!)
Jim Reeves - Welcome to My World & He'll Have to Go
Tom Jones (covered by a lot of country artists) - The Green Green Grass of Home
Roy Clark - Yesterday When I was Young (English cover of a French song Hier Encore by Charles Aznavour)
Eddie Arnold - Make the World Go Away and the eponymous Cattle Call
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Hard to pick an all time great because there are so many I love to hear, including a number already mentioned. But here are some no one has mentioned that are greats:

Ray Price - For the Good Times (this, my friends, is what slow dancing is all about!)
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Thanks for that, I was just putting together a play list for a party and I was looking for a slow dance. Your whole list, in fact, I heard a lot growing up. We had a big (probably time-life) country 4 lp set and several of those were on that.
 
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Firebirdparts said:
Thanks for that, I was just putting together a play list for a party and I was looking for a slow dance. Your whole list, in fact, I heard a lot growing up. We had a big (probably time-life) country 4 lp set and several of those were on that.
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Grew up in south Georgia listening to "WLOR, AM730 on your dial!" (Thomasville) and country music.

An aunt of mine says For the Good Times reminds her of a young man she dated who was stationed at Spencefield in Moultrie during the late 50s.
 
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I hate to point this out so late, didn’t want to be “that guy” and point out the obvious but Rocky Top is not and has never been a “country” song. It’s a “hillbilly” or at the very least a “bluegrass” song.
 
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I love the stories in country/folk music. Probably my personal favorite song is “I feel like Hank Williams tonight.” By Jerry Jeff Walker. Not a great voice but I love this line. “Lately I’ve been thinking, I just might quit drinking. But now I don’t know all in all. I just might stay home, get drunk all alone, and punch a few holes in the wall.”
It’s from a little known album he did live in the late 80’s. I’ve owned it on cassette, vinyl, CD twice and now digital. You could float a battleship with the beer I drank listening to that song.
 
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